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23 but owing to the poverty of the family though the parties live in the same house they have never cohabited as funds are not forthcoming to pay for the feast which must take place before the tablets are

worshipped.

All persons are returned as "Animists" and it will

be noted that none of the women can read or write. The question about religion has led to some curious results. Nearly everyone is en animist but there are some Protestants and soue Catholics. In Sheung Shui there is a Buddhist priestess engaged in Buddhist propaganda. My interpreter who has been recently engaged in the worship of his own mind has as the result of misunderstanding a conversation which we had the other day entered himself as an Atheist and has induced a shroff to follow him. I understand that the joss sticks still burn before the shrine of the bed and the shrine of the stove so his con- -version is not likely to have any harmful effects.

The trades of Yun Tun Ha call for no comment.

In Sheung Yun Yiu it is interesting to see next

to such humdrum professions as Time Keeper K.C.Ry that the trade of sorcery flour ihes like a green bay tree. There are no less than four professional sorcerers in the village, three of them are surnamed Ch'i and one of these dresses up as a woman and pretends to be a witch when a witch's services are required.

The Territory is full of exorcists, witches, wise women who foretell the future by inspecting the manner in which hens pick up grain, persons who undertake to open the road for the dead to pass into heaven and for the living to pass out of Victoria jail, fung shui professors etc. All my enumerators are local men so the people have no hesitation in mentioning their real profession. The basest of all prfoessions I have come across is that plied by a *Wai Chau fellow" who leads the boar to the sow. The pig gelder seems to be one stage above him and then the man who cleans out the latrine. I am sending this to you unofficially as I thought